Week 1 Blogpost

Task 3: The Importance of communication skills for engineers

 "Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter."

Gilbert Amelio, former President and CEO of National Semiconductor Corp

Excellent communication skills are absolute essential to effective leadership. This is especially true in build environment industry. The leader of an engineering or construction firm needs to communicate effectively to all stakeholders such as architects, engineers, sub-contractrors, workers, etc., and motivate them to ensure smooth execution and successful completion of a project. The leader needs to convey clearly important messages such as project objectives and requirements, project timelines and milestones, challenges during the varius construction phases, etc., to all parties involved in the project as any mistake resulted from miscommunication will have huge cost and time implication.